Sentence examples for daring premise from inspiring English sources
This is the daring premise of The Crash of the Elysium, a new work for children created by immersive theatre specialists Punchdrunk, which gets its premiere at next month's Manchester international festival.
A book about mortality is a risky prospect, but Lipsyte is very funny, and his stylistic high-wire act — a rowdy prose that is by turns shocking and lyrical — is equal to his daring premise.
His first picture as director, The Major and the Minor (1942), was a comedy with the daring premise of Ginger Rogers posing as a child to get a reduced railway ticket and becoming the toast of the schoolboys at a military academy and the Lolita-like object of desire for the academy's senior officer, Ray Milland.
The daring AI premise that anything the mind does, machines can do as well, has engendered scientific advances that were unimaginable under more conservative paradigms, which were inhibited by ideas of "what computers cannot do".
The big winner at the Oscars was "American Beauty," a film based on the daring and original premise that material possessions don't bring happiness.
As The Onion's A.V. Club noted, for example, the television show "Kate & Allie," a critic's darling in the nineteen-eighties, "hasn't aged particularly well because it was a show that came up with a 'daring' premise for the time — two divorced women live together after their marriages end — then figured its work was done".
This was not about her beauty but a daring investigation of juxtaposing premises.
Chang echoed the sentiments of The Village Voice in lamenting that the film failed to pursue the premise to "darker, more daring territory" and faulted it for falling back on "over-the-top comic exaggeration".
A table full of customers had recently left the premises after taking advantage of Caesar's two-for-one beer special but not daring to eat the food.
